Moved: -> @[email protected]Apr 23, 2017

Everyone read this incredible essay by @u2764

"Mourning Mastodon"

https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616

If you're wondering why I stopped working in MastoDev, and why my posts about how development already includes marginalized voices are no longer applicable, then read that essay because it gets into all of it super fucking well

Show threadMaiyannah BishopApr 23, 2017
@shel For what it's worth, if you know PHP, your contributions would be more than welcome in postActiv - I need all the help I can get.
Show threadMaiyannah BishopApr 23, 2017
@shel As for a more on-point comment, I always think of what Hintjens commented on this topic.  It is more important to onboard contributors, find the problems with their contributions as colloborative process than a combatative one, and you make a much healthier community by being permissive and inclusion with MRs and PRs than you than by trying to gatekeep them.  We all have the same goal when we work collectively on a software project: making the software better.  The tribalism, the "I know best" and the treading on your contributors to ego-trip, all sabotage that goal.
Show threadMaiyannah BishopApr 23, 2017
@shel Hintjens describes one of the paths to success as thus, and it's what I strive to be, if not always succeed at:

"The Constant Gardener grows a process from a small seed, step-by-step as more people come into the project. She makes every change for a precise reason, with agreement from everyone. She never imposes a process from above but lets others come to consensus, and then he enforces that consensus. In this way, everyone owns the process together and by owning it, they are attached to it.
Show threadMoved: -> @[email protected]
@maiyannah Yes!!! It's so refreshing to hear from someone who actually has the right idea about project management and group facilitation. I'd certainly been lacking that lately
Apr 23, 2017 at 4:59amWeb
Show threadMaiyannah BishopApr 23, 2017
@shel I must admit some of my frustration with Mastodon comes from a place of "the things you guys complain about are exactly what I am trying to address with my approach :c" both socially and technically.

I will admit my personally is not infallible, I've had a rough life and I tend to be rough around the edges, but I am at least _trying_.
Show threadMoved: -> @[email protected]Apr 23, 2017
@maiyannah Yeah. You're notoriously a good person to work with. With all the people talking about FOSS organization and forks and stuff it's come up multiple times that "we should take notes from Maiyannah" etc.
Show threadMaiyannah BishopApr 23, 2017
@shel It's funny because all that ever gets back to me is how I'm a terrible person for this thing or that thing.  I try to walk the middle between several disparate cultures because I ultimately value them all as a whole in different ways and contexts.  It isn't easy and sometimes it just feels like you end up making /everyone/ unhappy with you.
Show threadMoved: -> @[email protected]Apr 23, 2017
@maiyannah re: making everyone unhappy by walking middle lines. I think that's like, very real and relatable and definitely something I've experienced. if you talk to the wrong people you get trusted less.